Pixelate Online: Automated Redaction Software with Inverse Redaction
Pixelate offers a low cost, easy to use online cloud solution for those looking for automated redaction software, and with its recent upgrade, ‘inverse redaction’, it is more powerful than ever before. Simply upload your video clip into our market-leading online redaction software from your laptop or desktop to use its automated body detection model, redact the footage, and download GDPR/CCPA compliant footage straight to your local device.
Designed as a cloud solution for those responding to CCTV Subject Access Requests, our proprietary solution does all the heavy lifting, providing all the GPU and compute necessary for seamless online redaction of video footage.
How to Pixelate Part of a Video Online
To use Pixelate, you first need to create an online account — you can even do this for free to play with the masking features and get a feel for our automated redaction software, simply select ‘skip for now’ when prompted to select a subscription. Once you have set up an account, you will be sent an email to validate your email address; please check your spam filter in case it gets caught in your junk folder.
Following validation, you will be able to access your account and begin uploading videos to the Pixelate online platform. Free online Pixelate accounts give full dashboard access, which also includes the ability to use both the auto-detect and manual masking functions within the Pixelate application.
Note: free accounts include 1 free minute of redaction per month, so you can process and download a short clip without a subscription. For anything beyond this, an active subscription is required, which can be added to your account at any time by purchasing an appropriate package online from within your account.
Automated Redaction Software — Ease of Use
If you are after online automated redaction software, look no further than Pixelate. It comes as standard with ‘Auto-Detect’, an AI body detection model that automatically applies redaction masks to individuals detected within video footage. This is a straightforward process that requires the following simple steps:
- Upload your video to the Pixelate platform
- Select your video from the video list for viewing
- Click the ‘Auto-Detect’ button
- Go back to the video list and, when Person Detection changes to ‘Status: Complete’, click ‘View Detections’
Once the AI body detection model has processed the video, masks will be applied to the individuals within. It is then simply a case of deleting the mask (or masks) associated with the individual who submitted the Subject Access Request, so that they remain visible after redaction has been applied.
The next step is to record the remaining masks over everyone else who appears in the footage. This is done by clicking ‘Record’, followed by ‘Play’, and letting the video run from start to finish. Applying and recording masks is a non-destructive editing process, so once complete, review the masked footage to make sure you’re happy with the results. If so, click ‘Save’ followed by ‘Redact’. This burns the masks into the video so that the redacted footage is both GDPR and CCPA compliant. As soon as the redaction process is complete, the redacted video is available to download from within the video list.
Pixelate Redaction Software — Manual Redaction
Pixelate also allows users to apply manual masks, in addition to its automated redaction tools. Manual masks can be used to obscure or blur any information that may be used to identify a natural person under GDPR, such as vehicle number plates.
The included ‘Keyframe’ feature makes it quick and easy to mask these types of objects, particularly if static, by simply clicking the ‘Keyframe’ button at the start and end of the video, which holds the related mask in place for the entirety of the footage.
Pixelate Redaction Software Feature Upgrade — Inverse Redaction
To further enhance the speed and usability of masking, the recently released ‘Inverse’ mode significantly improves both the usability and speed of the Pixelate video software platform. Inverse can be used to complement either automatic or manual masking by clicking the ‘Inverse’ button on a mask.
When applied, the Inverse function — as the name suggests — reverses the blurring effect. Instead of obscuring the object or individual associated with a particular mask, when Inverse is selected they become visible while everything else becomes blurred. Inverse can even be applied across multiple masks, giving Pixelate users the ability to quickly control what is and isn’t obscured in this low cost, online video redaction solution.
Why not explore what Pixelate video processing can do online for you? Contact us now for a demo of our automated redaction software.